Covering or facing element for buildings



COVERING OR FACING ELEMENT FOR BUILDINGS Fi] ed June '29,

UNITED STATES COVERING OR FACING ELEMENT FOR BUILDINGS Patented July 2, 1935 PATENT OFFICE Joseph W. Farr, Oak Park, Ill.

Application June 29, 1934, Serial No. 732,965

3 Claims.

- My present invention has relation to improvements'in covering or facing elements for buildings.

I am aware that a number of different structures' constituting covering or facing elements for-buildings have heretofore been designed having an outer face simulating awall formed of brick or stone or tile. Such structures have the advantage usually of being considerably lighter than what is known as brick or stone veneer, or the actual use of tile and they require much less time and labor in putting them in place.

However, such former structures of this kind have generally been designed for attachment towooden buildings or buildings having wood elements to which they could be nailed. With such mode of attachment the portions of the nails extending between the facing elements and the structure to which they were secured were always exposed to seepage and the moisture carried normally by the air, and consequently the nails or attaching means were subject to more or less rapid rusting and destruction.

I have had as an object the provision of a relatively thin and light covering or facing element which may be given the appearance of a brick or stone or tile structure which has the advantages of the prior structure and which may be applied alike either to a wooden house or to a masonry house or wall.

With many kinds of buildings my covering or facing elements require no metallic fastening means of any kind, but in such instances of application where the builder may desire to employ nails or other metallic fastening means I have had as a further object the provision of a facing or covering element in which a metallic fastening means, if employed, will be entirely embedded either in the wood or cement and sealed in and protected against the effect of seepage or atmospheric moisture.

I have had as a still further object the provision of a covering or facing element for buildings which, when in place, will be so intimately integrated with the material with which it is associated as to constitute with the support an integral structural feature, to wit: the facing element contributes appreciable compactness and rigidity as well as protection against the elements to the wall of which it forms a portion.

I have attained the foregoing objects by means of the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a facing panel, the front surface of which has been given a superficial configuration to simulate a portion of brick wall.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the structure shown in Fig. 1 partially in section.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the structure shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I

Fig. 5 is a section showing my facing panel associated with a brick wall. 1

Fig. 6 is a section of my panel associated with a frame wall of ship-lap construction with recesses provided in the wall.

Fig. 7 is a section of one-of my panels in association with a plain sheeted frame Wall with nails or other metallic fastening means.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the respective views.

In cases where it is desired to employ my new facing panels with new masonry structures or new frame structures, it is extremely easy to provide inequalities and recesses in the wall to which my panel is to be attached, which inequalities and recesses will serve to permit the forming of dependable anchorage for a plastic cementitious mortar.

01d masonry walls of either brick or stone in a state of partial disintegration are already provided with such inequalities of surface which will secure the necessary bonding and anchorage, or if further bonding is deemed to be desirable, it is easily secured by means of a cold chisel and a hammer. With frame or wooden walls the opportunity for bonding may be provided by boring the boards forming the surface of the wall or headed nails or hooks may be driven into the walls so as to extend a suitable distance therefrom.

My panel consists of a surface layer It] formed, of a proper mixture of cement and sand, or other desired plastic material, in the front surface of which are provided channels II to simulate the juncture lines of brick or other structural material. The back of the front layer I0 is provided with spaced recesses [2 provided by spaced upstanding portions l3. Positioned upon the upstanding portions i3 and extending across the recesses 12 is a length of reticulated or woven metal fabric 14 and outside of the layer of metal fabric the upstanding portions [3 are built up, as at E5, so as to space the metal fabric inwardly with respect to the rear face of the panel.

I prefer to extend the metal fabric M from one side and one end of the panel, as most clearly shown in Fig. 4, and upon the ends of the panel 10 tile can underlay and overlay or inter-fit.

where'the metal is extended I provide a groove IS in the lower face and edge of the tile. At the edges of the tile where the metal is extended I also prefer to bring the extended metal up over 5 the back extensions [5 instead of under them, as

15 to the back of the panel so as to bond with the depressions l2 and metal IA. The tile is then placed and pressed against the prepared wall and when the cement is set the job is done. When the headed nails l8, as shown in Fig. '7, or

20 hooked nails [9, as also shown in Fig. 7, are employed, they are properly spaced and driven in "so as to extend through the metal l4 and into the recess I2. 7

The surface coating on the wall is'also applied 2;; when nails or hooks are used and when the cement has set 'not only isthe nail or hook completely encasedby the cement but the juncture between' the wall and the panel is extended throughout the panel and does not depend 3o 'merely upon the engagement between the headed nail or hook and the reticulated or woven metal 12.

'If the panels herein described are made of suitable cement, or other suitable plastic, as

herein described, and are assembled with the wall, as herein described, an integral wall is secured having much greater resistance to the elements than many walls of brick or cement or tile as they are now made.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A covering or facing element for buildings comprising a panel formed of plastic material with an imperforate integral face and with spaced depressions in the rear thereof, a retic-. ulated metal fabric embedded in said panel and extending across said depressions intermediate their depth. 4

2. A covering or facing element for buildings comprising a panel formed of plastic material with an imperforate integral face and with spaced depressions in the rear thereof a reticbeing p ti y d r u andv overea so as to interfit with adjacent panels.

3. A covering or facing element forhuildings comprising a panel formed of plastic material,

the front face whereof is imperforate and integral and is provided with a configuration to sin ulate formal wall construction with spaced depressions in the rear face thereof, a'reticulated.

metal fabric embedded in said panel and extending across said depressions intermediate their depth.

JOSEPH W. 

